Seeing that General He remained silent, Chairman Chiang finally broke out.
"Coward, mother Xipi, we are all cowards! At this moment of national crisis, at this time of national crisis, we do not want to serve the country or the nation, but actually lead the troops to flee from the front line. It is shameful and is the fault of the soldiers of the party and the country.
What a disgrace! I will send them all to a military court and shoot them all!"
"Bang!" After speaking, Chairman Jiang punched the desk hard.
The originally closed door was suddenly pushed open, and Wang Shihe, the chief guard of the imperial palace, rushed in quickly.
"What did you come in for? Who asked you to come in!?" Chairman Chiang was in an extremely bad mood, and in a rare move, he began to reprimand his number one confidant Wang Shihe, "Get out, get out right now!"
Wang Shihe was scolded by Chairman Chiang, but his face actually showed an extremely excited look: "Commissioner, what a great victory! What a great victory in southern Hebei! The Baoshan Brigade fought for three hundred miles and successively annihilated the Japanese independent mixed 8th Brigade and the independent
The mixed 4th Brigade has now recovered Shimen City and Zhengding County and cut off the Ping-Han Line!"
"What did you say?" Chairman Chiang didn't hear clearly.
Admiral He next to him heard it clearly, and his expression suddenly changed.
Wang Shihe took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and repeated what he had just said. At this moment, the excitement in Wang Shihe's heart was really intense. The situation in the Wuhan battle is as bad as it is now.
, seeing that hundreds of divisions of the national army were about to collapse, they never thought about a turn of events!
What is the most urgent need for the National Army and the Nationalist Government at the moment? It is not free financial aid from the United States, nor large-scale arms purchases from the United States and Britain, but victory, a hearty victory! Blessed General, this boy Yue Weihan is really a blessing to the Nationalist Government.
General, when the Nationalist Government needed victory the most, this guy delivered a shocking victory in time!
Compared with the recovery of dozens of counties in southern Shandong, the influence of Zhengding in the recovery of Shimen this time is obviously greater!
When they returned to southern Shandong last time, the Baoshan Brigade only annihilated a few infantry squadrons of the Japanese army. But this time when they regained Shimen and Zhengding County, the Baoshan Brigade completely annihilated two independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army!
More importantly, the status of Shimen and Zhengding counties is by no means comparable to the dozen or so small counties in southern Shandong!
Before the Japanese invasion, Shimen was already a medium-sized city with a permanent population of more than 200,000, more than 230 factories and merchants, and tens of thousands of industrial workers! Zhengding County is a thousand-year-old city, and it is closely linked to
The intersection of Zhengtai Railway and Pinghan Railway is the largest transportation hub in North China, and its strategic position is of no small importance!
You can imagine it with your toes. This was definitely a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders!
Wang Shihe said it twice, and Chairman Jiang finally heard it clearly, and then the expression on his face became dull. Chairman Jiang obviously couldn't believe his ears, or was at a loss. Wasn't Chairman Jiang
He didn't believe that Yue Weihan could win the battle, he just couldn't believe that this victory would come so quickly!
"Shihe, you mean... the Baoshan Brigade recovered Shimen and Zhengding County?"
Chairman Chiang was a little afraid that he was dreaming, so he spoke very softly.
"Commissioner, that's right, that's right!" Without waiting for Wang Shihe's reply, General He rushed to say, "When Xuzhou broke out last time, I felt strange that the Baoshan Brigade had nearly 20,000 elites, but there were so few
With Yue Weihan’s ability, it’s impossible for him to suffer such a big loss? Now I know that this guy had already dispersed his troops to break out of the encirclement and secretly marched towards southern Hebei!"
"So... is this all true?" At this moment, Chairman Chiang looked more anxious than ever.
Seeing Wang Shihe's heavy nod, Chairman Jiang immediately clenched his fists and waved them viciously in the air twice. Then he turned back to General He and said: "With all due respect, the news of the victory in southern Hebei will be sent to the entire country immediately! We will convene the meeting immediately."
Press conference to announce this news to the whole world to boost the morale of the military and civilians across the country as well as the Chinese and overseas Chinese around the world!"
"Yes." General He stood up to attention and was about to turn around and leave when he was stopped by Chairman Chiang again.
"Wait, wait a minute." Chairman Chiang stopped General He and strode to the national map hanging on the wall.
Looking at the map of the country, Chairman Chiang said to himself: "The Baoshan Brigade regained Shimen and Zhengding County, and cut off the Zhengtai Railway and Pinghan Railway at once. If Sun Lianzhong Group and Yu Xuezhong Group are allowed to attack the Pingjin Railway and
Longhai Railway, then all four strategic transportation lines of the Japanese army will be paralyzed!"
General He then stood in front of the map and continued: "Once the four strategic communication lines are paralyzed, the ammunition supplies of the four major Japanese army groups on the Henan front line will be in crisis, and they may even fall into the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food. In this case, we
The pressure on the frontline units will be greatly reduced, and the Xue Yue Corps may also take the opportunity to break out of the encirclement!"
After saying this, General He said again: "However, there must be a prerequisite for all this."
"What's the premise?" Chairman Chiang said eagerly, "Speak quickly, I respect you and speak quickly!"
General He said: "The Baoshan Brigade must guard Shimen! We must not allow the Japanese army to quickly open the Pinghan Line!"
"Well..." Chairman Chiang pondered for a moment, and then said loudly with his eyes bright, "With all due respect, I will ask the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs to send an urgent telegram immediately. From now on, the Baoshan Brigade will be expanded into the Baoshan Division. All officers will be promoted to one rank. Yue Weihan will be promoted to Major General."
The brigade commander was promoted to lieutenant general and division commander, and was promoted from the director of the Lunan Administration Office to the director of the Hebei-Shandong Appeasement Office!"
General He frowned and said cautiously: "Should I give you a bonus for entrusting me with the seat?"
The expansion of the Baoshan Brigade into the Baoshan Division, and the promotion of the Director of the Administrative Office to the Director of the Office of Appeasement, are all illusory. Even if the Baoshan Brigade is expanded into a group army, it will only have a small number of troops, and it will not create tens of thousands more people out of thin air, nor can it change the situation.
When the equipment came, the director of the Hebei-Shandong Appeasement Office was called out with a loud name, and seemed to be of high authority, but Hebei and Shandong provinces were all occupied by the Japanese invaders.
"Give me a bonus?" Chairman Jiang hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Then... one hundred thousand French currency!"
Although General He was extremely loyal to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, he couldn't help but sneered a few words at this time. When was it now that he was so stingy with Baoshan Brigade and Yue Weihan? However, General He did not say this out loud.
He reminded me again: "Commissioner, even if the Baoshan Brigade is expanded into the Baoshan Division, the troops are only that small. I'm afraid it still won't be able to defend Shimen?"
"To defend Shimen, the strength of the Baoshan Division is indeed a bit weak." Chairman Jiang nodded and suddenly asked, "Jingzhi, aren't Shi Yousan's 181st Division and Gao Shuxun's New 6th Division currently operating in southern Hebei?
?And Sun Dianying's more than 5,000 rabble, are they in the northern Henan area now?"
"Yes." General He nodded and said, "Sun Dianying just sent a telegram asking the Military Commission to organize it for him."
"Then give him the designation of the New 9th Division." Chairman Chiang said, "The Military Commission will issue another telegram to reorganize the areas in southern Hebei, western Shandong, and northern Henan into the new Sixth Army. The New Sixth Army
Under the jurisdiction of the Baoshan Division, the 181st Division, the New 6th Division and the New 9th Division, Yue Weihan is the commander, Shi Yousan is the deputy commander, Gao Shuxun is the chief of staff, and Sun Dianying is the director of the political department!"
General He hesitated for a moment. He originally wanted to say that Yue Weihan was too young and had little qualifications, so he might not be able to suppress the three old warlords, Shi Yousan, Sun Dianying and Gao Shuxun. But then he thought about Yue Weihan's performance on the battlefield.
Being fierce may not be enough to defeat Shi Sungao. He nodded immediately and said: "Commissioned, I'll make arrangements for this humble position."
"Go ahead." Chairman Chiang said happily, "The most important thing is the press conference!"
"Understood!" General He replied solemnly, "The humble post must be arranged as soon as possible!"
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Shimen City.
Just after noon, Yue Weihan returned to Shimen with his guard troops.
As soon as he sat down in the office of Kasai Yonezo, the head of the Japanese military's secret service stationed in Shimen, Cao Xinglong, who had stayed to implement martial law in Shimen City in the morning, hurriedly walked in. Before anyone could enter the door, the voice came in: "
Traveler, our Baoshan Travel has really made a fortune this time, a big fortune!"
Yue Weihan said: "Tell me about it?"
"According to statistics, a total of more than 6,700 Japanese troops were annihilated in this battle and more than 2,000 were captured alive, of which more than 1,300 were Japanese expatriates..." After saying this, Cao Xinglong asked in a low voice, "Where are you sitting in the hotel?"
, it’s okay to bury other Japanese expatriates, but there are more than 200 young and beautiful Japanese women inside, wouldn’t it be a pity if they were buried alive too?”
"Why not bury them alive?" Yue Weihan said coldly, "Should I give them to my brothers as wives?"
"This..." Cao Xinglong scratched his head and said, "It seems not very good."
"It's very bad!" Yue Weihan said, "Who knows if there are spies among these Japanese girls? If there are really spies of the Japs among them, wouldn't every move of our Baoshan Brigade from now on be under the surveillance of the Japs?
Also, if we really send these Japanese women away, maybe some of them will fall down in Wenrou Township and become traitor lackeys!"
"That's true." Cao Xinglong suddenly revealed his murderous intent and said in a ferocious voice, "Then just bury them all."
Yue Weihan snorted noncommittally and asked: "What else is there, what else can be gained?"
"The harvest is huge." Cao Xinglong said as he took out a small book from his pocket, opened it and read, "I have just mentioned the number of enemy annihilations. The weapons seized included more than 3,600 Type 38 rifles.
, ninety-six crooked light machine guns, twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns, eighty-eight grenade launchers, six 80 mortars, four Type 92 infantry guns, and two Type 75 field guns
.”
Yue Weihan frowned and said with some displeasure: "That's all?"
"That's all the seizures." Cao Xinglong was stunned, and then said, "Oh, the ammunition intercepted at the train station has not been counted yet."
"Where are the factories and merchants in Shimen City and Zhengding County?" Yue Weihan said coldly, "Now our Baoshan Brigade not only needs guns and ammunition, but also money, a lot of money! We also need equipment!"
"Oh, this." Cao Xinglong suddenly said, "Don't worry, sir, all factories, merchants and warehouses have been sealed and troops have been sent to protect them!"